Find Actively Running SQL Server Agent Jobs

Hi there,

An ETL developer asked my help recently with a SQL Server Agent job needed to start running if the main job finished running.  Occasionally main job run longer than expected and interfered with the secondary job which should run after the main job.  In the first step of secondary job we added a step to continue if the following query returned no rows if it returns a row then we set the job to retry again in 10  minutes for 3 times which solved our issue.

HTH,
Bulent


USE msdb;
GO
SELECT
    j.name AS job_name,
    ja.start_execution_date,     
    ISNULL(last_executed_step_id,0)+1 AS current_executed_step_id,
    Js.step_name
FROM dbo.sysjobactivity AS ja
    LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.sysjobhistory AS jh ON ja.job_history_id = jh.instance_id
    INNER JOIN dbo.sysjobs AS j ON ja.job_id = j.job_id
    INNER JOIN dbo.sysjobsteps AS js ON ja.job_id = js.job_id AND ISNULL(ja.last_executed_step_id,0)+1 = js.step_id
WHERE ja.session_id = (SELECT TOP 1 session_id FROM msdb.dbo.syssessions ORDER BY agent_start_date DESC)
AND ja.start_execution_date is not null
AND ja.stop_execution_date is null
--AND j.name = 'NameOfTheJob' -- Uncomment and supply the name of the job you need to find out if it's actively running
GO